Soon enough they were at the school, Danny was huffing slightly while Jake was wheezing. "Dude," Danny flew over to him, "work on endurance, you're way out of shape."
"Hey, I have to concentrate to keep this form! I've never gone that fast either!"
Danny shrugged and landed on the roof, Lao was already sitting there drinking tea. Danny glanced over as Jake landed, rapidly attempting to get his breath back.
"You're out of shape Jake." Lao stated, "the ghost got here faster than you."
"B-but he's a gho-"
"No but's young dragon. 50 fire-ups."
Jake grumbled and got on the ground and started doing sit-ups, breathing a small white flame each time he touched his knees, and started counting.
"Hah!" Danny pointed to Jake and laughed, "Sucks to have a master doesn't it?"
Lao stood up, "Don't think you've skipped out on this training, ghost."
Danny glanced over at Lao, "No? Not like you can boss me around."
"How about a sparring match?"
"With him?" Danny looked at Jake who was at around 20 of his exercise.
Lao laughed, "No, not that one. I'm challenging you, ghost!"
"Um, half-ghost first of all, second of all, no." Danny looked around, "I could barely beat a ghost dragon, much less a real masterdragon!"
Suddenly a small fly-like object zipped past Danny's face and flew to Jake, "American Dragon!" it said.
Jake stopped his fire-ups and looked at Lao with a grin, "Dragon time, 'sup sprite?"
Danny landed and walked over, "sprite?" He took a closer look at the bug, and realized it was actually a red-headed sprite with green wings.
"It's horrible!" The sprite continued in rapid words way too fast to understand.
"Woah, slow down there." Jake calmed the sprite down, "One word at a time."
The sprite took a deep breath and repeated what he said slightly slower, "A pointy-haired demon ghost stole one of us!"
"Pointy haired..." Jake started
"...Demon ghost." Danny finished, and rubbed his chin, "Did he have a cape?" The sprite looked over and nodded rapidly, "White outfit?" Another nod, Danny started forming a picture in his mind, "Red Eyes? Black gloves and boots? Glowing? Male?" A final nod, and Danny sighed.
"What? You know him?" Jake asked.
"Yeah, yeah. He sounds like Vlad Plasmius."
"Plasmius? Psh, classic bad-guy name."
"Pretty much." Danny nodded and flew back over to Lao with an invisible sigh of relief, "Guess we'll have to battle some other day."
Lao eyed Danny, "Yes. Seems so. Go save the sprite." He dismissed the two teens with a wave of his hand.
Danny glanced over at Jake, then back to the sprite, "Lead the way."
The sprite was surprisingly quick, maybe the possibility of their brethren being torchered sped him along. Danny didn't have a problem with keeping up, but Jake was ever so slowly falling behind.
"Jake, come on man. You have got to be one of the biggest noobs I know when it comes to superhero-ing."
"Well, let's just say that this is like you running a marathon, then doing a hundred push-ups, then another race." Jake retaliated.
Danny paused for a moment and thought, "Seems tough. Luckily I don't have to do any of that" Danny grinned, "Want me to carry you or something?"
"What? The dragon carries the ghost, not the other way around." Jake sounded hurt.
"Well, what about a ghost carrying a human? We have to catch up." Danny pointed to the sprite, who was starting to look like a bug again.
Jake stopped and flapped in place, "Okay, but next time I carry you."
Danny grinned, at least they could follow the sprite now. Danny would rather fight Vlad than a dragon master. Danny caught Jake as he transformed human, and followed after the sprite. "Going to go a bit fast, make sure not to fall."
"Dude, I'm a dragon I have wings if I fall."
"Not what I meant. Want to go back to fire-ups or help a sprite?"
"...Sprite." Jake grumbled a reply after a second and crossed his arms.
~Quite a bit of a flight later ;3~
"I'm starting to question if this sprite knows where he's going." Danny said, finally starting to show his loss of breath in a few puffs. He'd been flying at near his maximum speed for over an hour.
"Same here." Jake replied, still being carried. Suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off and Danny stopped, turning around 180 degrees. "What's wrong?"
"Ghost sense. Vlad's near." Danny preemptively dropped Jake, causing the thirteen-year-old to let out a yelp and quickly transform into a dragon.
"What's that for?" Jake flew back up to Danny and stayed in spot.
"Vlad Plasmius." Danny spotted his nemesis, just as Vlad did the same.
"Ahh, Daniel Phantom. Long time no see, child. You like my sprite collection?"
